Malata introduces 10, 12 inch notebooks with NVIDIA Tegra 2 chips

Chinese PC maker has unveiled two new laptop computers which will eschew the usual Intel or AMD processor for an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core ARM Cortex-A9 chip. The company isn’t showing off the actual laptops yet, but Charbax spotted spec sheets at a trade show in China.

The Malata PC-B1002 is a 10 inch laptop with a 1024 x 600 pixel display, up to 8GB of storage, up to 1GB of RAM, and a 2200mAh battery. It features 802.11b/g/n WiFi and optional 3G and weighs about 2.4 pounds.

The Malata PC-B1301 has a 13.3 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display and a 4400mAh battery. The rest of the specs, other than the size and weight, are pretty much the same as for the 10 inch model.

Charbax says Malata will likely show off the new tablets at Computex in June.

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Oh thank God! Finally! Somebody has addressed the main deficiency of the notebook platform: well-supported hardware with widespread operating system support and choices. Honestly, the whole “notebook” fad has never really caught on. It’s basically been limping along for the last 20 years, struggling to find any real traction with mainstream consumers and forcing us to keep buying and using desktops. Who is to blame for the decades long debacle that is the “notebook”? Companies like Microsoft, Intel, AMD, and the greater Linux community have basically dropped the ball when it comes to the notebook, making stupid mistakes like offering a variety of open and closed source driver packages for their hardware and supporting that hardware across a variety of generations of a variety of operating systems. Wow guys, thanks for ruining notebooks and not letting them reach their true potential. You’ve basically ruined the lives of every consumer that… Read more »

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@boxrock
Wow, quite a rant. You sound like someone a bit disillusioned. Hey, this is capitalism we live in.

However:
12″ Tegra2 laptops/netbooks could be useful to a certain segment for a set of use-cases.

With an optimized Linux distro or Android they could absolutely reach a fan-less, cool, 10 hour runtime with speedy browsing.

That would be enough for me as an ultra-portable home/travel notebook.

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